Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Face Defeat...
Unless the war is ended very soon, Kennedy warned, the Democratic party will risk a serious defeat in the next elections...
...Penn and the winner of the match between Chris Gadsden (Yale) and Bob Hellerson (Dennison). Gonzalez's path will be tougher. After an easy match with Bill Crane of Williams he will meet Navy's Scott Ryan, the number two seed and the only collegiate player ever to defeat Nayar...
...ballots of 150 million voters were laboriously counted by hand at tabulating stations in the electoral districts, the scope of the Congress Party's reversal reached dramatic proportions. Down to defeat went five Cabinet ministers, four state chiefs, and even the president of the Congress Party. The party lost control of governments in three states-Kerala, Orissa and Madras-and fell short of a majority in five others, in which it will almost certainly have to form coalitions with opposition parties...
...party's kingmaking "Syndicate," was unseated by a 36-year-old former dock worker. Surendra Tapuriah, the young man who modeled his hairdo and politics after Bobby Kennedy, won by a landslide. To a younger candidate, too, fell fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, 69, in a defeat that undoubtedly ended his stormy political career...